Without wasting any time, the team began preparing for cultivation, as Wang Lei and Lin Xue worked together to set up a protective formation around the area to prevent interference from beasts or other cultivators, while Xu Mei reinforced the perimeter with controlled flames that acted as both a barrier and an early warning system, and Su Ling carefully arranged her alchemy tools nearby, ensuring that she could refine energy or stabilize fluctuations if needed, showing just how much their teamwork had matured over time, because every action they took now was coordinated without the need for excessive communication.
Once everything was prepared, each of them took their position and began cultivating, drawing in the dense heaven and earth energy that surrounded them, and as qi flowed steadily into their bodies, their cultivation bases began to stabilize and strengthen at a visible pace, with Wang Lei focusing on refining his core and improving his control over wind energy, Xu Mei deepening her connection with her phoenix flame, Su Ling refining her Life Flame to a higher level of purity, and Lin Xue enhancing the complexity and realism of her illusions.
Li Hao, however, focused on something entirely different.
His attention turned inward.
Because for him—this was not just cultivation.
This was evolution.